Course Name:
DGR for Processing and Accepting DG consignments - Initial
Duration:
5 Days
Scope:
DGR
Conducted By:RTC
How Will I Benefit?
- Fulfil the regulatory compliance requirements for revalidation and keep your certification current
- Continue to perform tasks involved in processing dangerous goods consignments correctly
- Apply the significant changes and amendments to IATA’s DGR manual to process dangerous goods consignments accurately
- Discuss the legal responsibilities of stakeholders involved in the transportation of dangerous goods by air
Who Should Attend?
- Personnel working for cargo agents, consolidators and freight forwarders who are responsible for processing dangerous goods consignments from shippers to airlines
- IATA Cargo agent applicants willing to fulfill the training requirements for DGR
Course Contents:
- Understanding the basics of dangerous goods
- Dangerous goods applicability
- Understand the definition
- Recognize the legal framework (global, national)
- Identify the application and scope
- Differentiate between hazard and risk
- Understanding the general limitations
- Develop a sense of forbidden dangerous goods
- Recognise potential hidden dangerous goods
- Familiarised with passenger provisions
- Identifying different roles and responsibilities
- Clarify the individual and collective role of the supply chain stakeholders
- Recognise the impact of State & operator variations
- Understanding the importance of classification & packaging
- Identify the general information about classes, divisions
- Understand general principles of packing groups
- Consider multiple hazards
- Understanding hazard communication
- Recognise the basic marking requirements
- Recognize the basic labelling requirements
- Identify the required documentation
- Familiarising with basic emergency response
- Create awareness about general emergency procedures
- Understand the employer's emergency response requirements
- Processing/accepting cargo
- Review documentation
- Verify Shipper's Declaration
- Verify other transport documents (e.g. air waybill)
- Verify other documents (exemptions, approvals, etc.)
- Verify State/operator variations
- Review package(s)
- Verify marks
- Verify labels
- Verify packaging type
- Verify package conditions
- Verify State/operator variations
- Complete acceptance procedures
- Complete acceptance checklist
- Provide shipment information for load planning
- Retain documents as required
- Collecting safety data
- Report dangerous goods accidents
- Report dangerous goods incidents
- Report undeclared/mis-declared dangerous goods
- Report dangerous goods occurrences